On Thursday, Shelby County Public Schools Superintendent James Neihof shared with the board the option of reducing the days left on the school calendar.

Neihof explained that while a proposed school snow bill could reduce the number of makeup days for districts across the state, it does not apply to Shelby County district. However, the calendar could still change anyway.

On July 8, 1916, Florence Bareham, not knowing whether her husband, Reginald Bareham, my father, was alive or dead, gave birth to her only child, Ronald Reginald Bareham [later Van Stockum]. On the occasion of my Christening, Lady Waldstein, wife of Sir Charles Waldstein of Newton Hall Farm, for whom Reggie had worked, presented my mother with a set of engraved sterling silver baby utensils in a fitted case.

More than 200 guests packed Claudia Sanders Dinner House Saturday night in support of the Republican Party, to hear what the state’s Republican candidates for governor had to say.

Three of the four Republican gubernatorial candidates showed up, with Matt Bevin, James Comer and Hal Heiner all speaking to the crowd. Will T. Scott could not attend, but his running mate, Rodney Coffey, spoke in his absence.

The four will vie for the Republican nomination for governor May’s primary, with the winner facing Democratic candidate Jack Conway in Nov.

Nestled behind a blanket of trees in a quiet Shelbyville neighborhood sits a hidden gem – Fuzion Athletics, an athletic club like no other around.

Owner and coach Jamie Steffen does not train basketball or football players, but rather he’s a pole vaulting coach, and with his unique facility he’s singlehandedly putting Kentucky on the pole vaulting map.

With only a handful of similar facilities across the nation, most of his students travel more than one hour each way every week to train at Fuzion, Steffen said.